Cyclopaedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and Critical Notices of Authors, and Selections from Their Writings. From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; with Portraits, Autographs, and Other Illustrations, Volume 1C. Scribner, 1855 - American literature |
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... Franklin heralded the more general literary cultivation which was to follow . The next , the Revolutionary period , may be said to have begun and ended with the discussion of legal and constitutional principles . It was inaugurated by ...
... Franklin heralded the more general literary cultivation which was to follow . The next , the Revolutionary period , may be said to have begun and ended with the discussion of legal and constitutional principles . It was inaugurated by ...
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... FRANKLIN A Parable against Persecution . The Ephemera ; an emblem of human life . The Whistle . Dialogue between Franklin and the Gout . EZRA STILES • Extracts from the Literary Diary , Newport , R. I 101 ( till 1777. ) On Kings , from ...
... FRANKLIN A Parable against Persecution . The Ephemera ; an emblem of human life . The Whistle . Dialogue between Franklin and the Gout . EZRA STILES • Extracts from the Literary Diary , Newport , R. I 101 ( till 1777. ) On Kings , from ...
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... Franklin . " JEDIDIAH MORSE 415 ALBERT GALLATIN RICHARD ALSOP 492 • 495 Elegy . Champe's Expedition . From the Funeral Oration on the Death of Gen. Washington , delivered at the request of Congress . ROYAL TYLER From the shop of Messrs ...
... Franklin . " JEDIDIAH MORSE 415 ALBERT GALLATIN RICHARD ALSOP 492 • 495 Elegy . Champe's Expedition . From the Funeral Oration on the Death of Gen. Washington , delivered at the request of Congress . ROYAL TYLER From the shop of Messrs ...
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... Franklin . Portrait and Autograph of Benja- min Franklin . Portrait and Autograph of Mather Byles Autograph of Joseph Green 21 Portrait and Autograph of Ethan Allen Portrait and Autograph of Fisher Ames 469 206 24 Portrait and Autograph ...
... Franklin . Portrait and Autograph of Benja- min Franklin . Portrait and Autograph of Mather Byles Autograph of Joseph Green 21 Portrait and Autograph of Ethan Allen Portrait and Autograph of Fisher Ames 469 206 24 Portrait and Autograph ...
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... Franklin in 1741 , and the Psalms in the same year , in Bos- ton . They did not come into general use till after the Revolution . |. taph : Tate and Brady's version of the Psalms , pub- lished in England at the close of the seventeenth ...
... Franklin in 1741 , and the Psalms in the same year , in Bos- ton . They did not come into general use till after the Revolution . |. taph : Tate and Brady's version of the Psalms , pub- lished in England at the close of the seventeenth ...
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